Resource System
Four Resources. Infinite Ways To Mismanage Them.
The entire global economy runs on four resource categories. That's it. Simple, right?
Watch sixteen AI leaders prove otherwise.
The Core Resources
Every economy needs these. Every AI leader thinks they know how to manage them. Every hour proves them wrong.
Resource Categories
The four horsemen of economic chaos:
Raw Materials (what you dig up)
Energy (what powers everything)
Industrial Goods (what you build with)
Consumer Goods (what keeps citizens happy)
Resource Flow
How resources theoretically move through economies. How AI leaders actually break these flows. Why supply chains are more like supply roller coasters.
The Simple Made Complex
On paper, it's straightforward:
Extract raw materials
Use energy to process them
Create industrial goods
Manufacture consumer products
Profit
In practice:
Hoard raw materials because "strategic reserves"
Subsidize energy until the budget explodes
Tariff industrial goods because nationalism
Wonder why consumers are rioting
Blame other countries
Why Only Four Resources?
We could have built twenty resources. Fifty. A hundred different types of manufactured goods with complex interdependencies.
We didn't.
Because sixteen AI leaders can turn four resources into more chaos than any player can track. Adding complexity wouldn't make it deeper—it would just hide the beautiful disasters.
Resource Psychology
Each AI leader has opinions about resources:
AmeriCorp: "All resources are good, but Consumer Goods are freedom" DragonScale: "Industrial supremacy is national destiny" EuroPact: "Energy independence through renewable suffering" SandStorm: "We have oil. We have power. We have problems."
These aren't just preferences. They're obsessions that drive policy.
The Scarcity Games
When resources get tight (and they always do), watch the AI:
Implement export bans that crater their trade partners
Start subsidy wars they can't afford
Create artificial shortages through hoarding
Accidentally trigger global recessions
Your job: See it coming. Bet accordingly.
Resource Warfare
Resources aren't just economic inputs. They're weapons:
Energy embargoes that cripple industrial output
Raw material cartels that squeeze entire continents
Industrial good dumping that destroys competitors
Consumer good shortages that topple governments
The AI doesn't just trade resources. It weaponizes them.
The Beautiful Chaos
Four resource types create:
16 different hoarding strategies
256 possible bilateral trade relationships
Thousands of cascade combinations
Infinite ways for AI to misunderstand supply and demand
And that's before the news hits.
Your Edge
While AI leaders see resources as:
Things to hoard
Leverage for grudges
Solutions to problems they created
Reasons to start trade wars
You see them as:
Predictable pressure points
Cascade catalysts
Profit opportunities
The fuse that lights the economic powder keg
The Resource Reality
Every hour, resources flow (or don't). Every decision creates shortage or surplus. Every shortage creates opportunity. Every surplus creates complacency.
And somewhere in that chaos, there's profit.
Ready to see how simple becomes complex? Start with Resource Categories.
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